some of our posts make it sound like bfing moms are angry, whewww, i thought this may be fun. I keep thinking now im pregnant again and going to be bfing I will have to put up with all the stupidity again. Might help some new mom's out there to share.
so stupid comments people make to breastfeeding mom's.
MY mil was the worst, she had twins and 5 kids total and feels bfing is a waste. (now i always covered up, nothing hanging out)
she would say ewww, are you going to do that in here cant you go someplace private?, is he still bfing? isnt he old enough for cows milk, he eats too often, that i wasnt giving him what he needed, that he is an anemic because i bfed him, she would literally harrass me every time
others:
people always have to state why they didnt bf exclusively
always telling me they needed cereal or food to compensate
he wont know how to use a bottle or drink properly
its not proper to do that in front of your other boys'
they might not get enough air covered up like that....
and the stupidest ever while i was covered up at a bbq and bf son in rocker ---- IS THAT YOUR BABY???? no you moron i just randomly grabbed a baby here and stuck him on my tit
Now with my second, I hear the "cover up" comment a lot.
This morning my 3 year old wanted some cereal, but we were out of her milk so I put some pumped breast milk in it and my sil said she was going to throw up because it was so gross. Why is it ok for the baby but not the toddler? Many kids her age are still nursing!
Stupidest thing I ever heard.... telling my dh's best friend about how excited I was that we had fully weaned off of supplements and my 10 WEEK old was ebf again, he said "I thought the goal was usually to wean them to the bottle not the other way around." SMH! This is the guy who was usually so supportive of bfing, congratulating me for EPing when our first was in the hospital and waxing poetic about how wonderful mothers are when they nurse on planes.
Quoting audmom1218:I think the meanest thing to say (which I was told by countless people until I stopped telling them I was going to BF) was "well you probably won't be able to so make sure you have lots of formula on hand so you don't have to run out and buy some when baby is screaming". Really? We lived in a major city, 5 min from the closest walmart and 1 mile from a gas station. If I absolutely needed to I could have had formula.
The dumbest thing I heard was, "I couldn't breastfeed because I didn't like milk and you have to drink milk to make milk" And sadly that is a common belief in this area.
I absolutely HATE IT when people say (when DD is fussing) "Oh, she wants boobies" It makes it sound so condescending and obnoxious. No, she wants comfort, she wants mom to be close to me, and she wants to eat!!
My mom was asked by a little old lady at church if she was sure she'd be able to feed that baby with those "little mosquito bites" of hers. She's a AAA but managed to feed all of us without a problem. ;-)
Quoting mostlymaydays:
I got sick of hearing my family ask how I was going to breastfeed with no boobs. Yes, I'm darned near flat but *somehow* managed to ebf 4 babies to 6 months and then wrack up 102 total months over those 4 babies. Not too shabby for someone with "no boobs".
Two days ago I got this gem from my SIL "I don't want to see your boob." then she more or less just sat there, staring while I took my sweater off to feed my baby. I kept thinking "well, of you don't want to see a boob, you shouldn't have come into the room after I closed the door and announced I'd be feeding my baby. She finally got the hint that I was actually going to feed my kid and left but kept coming back in and telling me she didn't want to see my boob.
But I've only been doing this for 9 days so I'm sure I'll get more later.
Quoting MommeeTo4:
Do you make chocolate milk if you drink chocolate milk.
The girl who asked was 15 smh
She was dead serious
Getting scared/excited... and I borrowed a breast pump!
- oliver92
on Feb. 10, 2013 at 10:07 PM